Nowadays, newer cars recommends 0W20 oil. So if you guys want a thicker oil, the 0W30, 5W30 or even 10W30 should be sufficient to protect your engine in our hot climate.

The 5W40 oil are meant for older cars made in the 90s to early 2000 like Wira, Corolla, Perdana as it was the recommended oil back then.

For racing application, usually they will use a heavier weight oil like 5W60 as the oil will thin out under extreme engine temperature. Anyway, this grade of oil is not suitable for daily driving.

I will avoid buying Shell engine oil from authorized distributor due to its expensive pricing. No harm buying from TESCO GIANT if these Shell oil are priced right.

Not to mention the billions of dollar went into sponsoring Ferrari F1 throughout the years. Buyers will end up paying for these sponsorship through expensive engine oil price.

This post has been edited by Thrust: Apr 20 2019, 09:50 AM

Your engine was made in the 90s era.. back then, the recommended viscosity mainly revolves around 40 and 50 weight oil. That is why you stick to 0w-40.

Who knows probably the users actually compared the previous oil which was fake against the one they bought from Paulhew which is genuine?

The fake becomes genuine and the genuine becomes fake.

I've bought different types of oil from Paulhew.. Nissan oil, Shell Helix, Petronas Syntium.. All these oil has different colour dye.

The one that really impressed me was Helix HX8X.. That oil colour was so pure and transparent that I had trouble looking at the dipstick to see the oil level. Fake refiltered oil can't achieve these colour I would say.

This post has been edited by Thrust: Aug 28 2021, 08:51 AM